The Choice of a Lifetime
Let’s get back to basics. Do we want to make our own choices in life, or would we rather have someone else make them for us?
If you had a choice, would you choose to live, or to die?
Would you prefer someone else to make that choice for you?
It is popular nowadays to refer to abortion as a “choice”, one of several in a viable range of choices.
In truth, it is not an available choice, for the simple reason that it destroys people. You may familiar with a popular book “ All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten.” Most kindergartners know that destroying people is bad.
Transpose the same flawed logic that proposes abortion as a choice to other “choices” and behaviors.
Suppose I am an arsonist. Arson is illegal. Arson is illegal for a reason. Arson is bad. It destroys property and people. (Most kindergartners know not to play with fire.) Now, say I truly believe that arson is an art, and my emotional well being depends on expressing myself through arson. Say I feel that there is a poetic beauty in seeing strong stable structures built to last a lifetime destroyed by a burst of colorful, weightless ethereal flames. We have freedom of expression, right? Does the fact that arson is illegal “force “ me to premeditate ways of secretly carrying off the setting of fires, rather than just doing it in plain sight of all, open and above board? Does the fact that it’s illegal cause my emotional instability? Really, it’s so unfair that just because I can’t help myself and keep committing arson, that I keep getting convicted of felonies, right? Ridiculous. So is positing that just because I can’t help myself, and have sex without protection, I unfairly become pregnant, and to make it all worse, I’m told that I’m not allowed to murder my child, even though I truly believe it’s ok in my case, and I truly want to, so I’m “forced “ to do it illegally. How insane can we be? How utterly dishonest can we be? How spineless can we be?
As to the “justification” put forth by some – “ I wasn’t ready to be a parent,” there are three appropriate responses. 1) Nobody is ready. The most experienced and effective parents in the world would agree that no matter how old you are, no matter how well educated, no matter how deliberately and carefully you have tried to ready yourself for being a parent, nothing quite prepares you. Those things are all very good, but all of us keep learning as we raise our children, and all of us sometimes need help. 2) It’s too late for that. The baby’s already here. So you need to respond to your new status and do what you can to get ready now.
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